Nick Wiswell
Turn 10 Studios
Nick Wiswell is an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience and more than 25 shipped video game titles to his name. He has been the Audio Director at Turn 10 Studios at Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios since 2010, overseeing the audio development of the Forza series of games including Motorsport, Horizon, and Street titles. Prior to that, he was an Audio Manager at game developer Bizarre Creations, contributing to series such as Geometry Wars, Project Gotham Racing, Fur Fighters and Blur.
Nick has remained at the forefront of audio technology, content creation, and delivering world-class interactive audio experiences for his entire career and in 2023 returned to direct the audio development for Forza Motorsport.
Nick Wiswell is speaking at the following session/s
20 Years of Forza Motorsport - An Audio Retrospective
May 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Forza Motorsport on the original Xbox. In a fascinating look behind the scenes, Nick Wiswell, the Audio Director at Turn 10 Studios for the last 15 years will re-visit some hugely important moments in his journey. Drawing out universal lessons learned, he’ll explore the evolution and management of the creative process, deep dive into some technical audio innovations and discuss some of the community interactions that have helped keep Forza at the forefront of gaming for two decades and counting.
Session Takeaway
- A history of Forza Motorsport including key innovations in the franchise with an audio focus
- A Retrospective including key learnings on the audio creative, technical and production processes that have been used over the last 20 years at Turn 10 and how they have evolved or changed
- A deep dive into a couple of key audio features from previous games
- How to work with a community of players to build trust and respect
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